Corset-steel fastening



(HodeL) T.'G.' BATES.

Corset Steel Fastening.

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Patented Feb.-l5, 1881.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

THEODORE O. BATES, OF NORTH BROOKFIELD, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF AND DAVID H. FANNING. OF WORCESTER, MASSACHUSETTS.

CORSET-STEEL FASTENING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 237,803, dated February 15, 1881.

Application filed December 31, 1880. (ModeL) To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, THEODORE O. BATES, of North Brooktield, county of Worcester, State of Massachusetts, have invented Improvementsin Corset-Steel Fastenings, of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification.

This invention in corset-steel and fastenings therefor has for its object to positively lock or secure the steels when fastened together at the front of the corset. To do this one fastening for the steel is composed of a plate provided with an eye or slot so shaped that when engaged with the usual headed stud ofthe other steel, and the stud is moved into the narrow part of the said eye, the plate having the said eye cannot be disengaged from the stud except by a vertical orlongitudinal motion of one steel over the other steel. Upon the steels, beside the fastening just described, I employ a locked fastening, which, as herein represented, is like that shown in another application filed by me September 29, 1880, or substantially such a fastening device as is shown and claimed in United States Patent No. 222,400, to which reference may be had; but I desire to be understood that I do not herein lay specific claim to the said locked fastening considered singly.

Figure 1 represents; in front view, a pair of corset-steels containing myinvention, and Fig. 2 is an under-side view of the lowermost fastening removed from the steel.

The steels a I), the fastenings 0d nearest the center of the steels, and the headed studs 0, are of usual construction.

The lowermost or locked fastening device is composed of an eye-piece, f, and a spring, all as in the application above referred to.

The fastening at the upper end of the steel a is composed of an angular plate, It, provided with a slot or eye, 1, extended substantially parallel with the edge of the steel or, with which the plate It is connected, the large part of the slot being at the lower edge of the plate It, so that the stud or, once in the small or uppermost part of the said slot 1, cannot get into the large part of the slot to release the plate h from the said stud, except'by moving one steel longitudinally with relation to the other.

Simply moving the steels Cb b toward or from each other will not effect the release of the plate h from the stud or. After the angular plate It has been engaged with the stud 00, as shown in Fig. l, and the said stud is in the small part of the eye I, the other fastenings, b o, are engaged with the studs e, and the fasteningfis engaged with the stud e like studs 6, and drawn backward until the springgfalls at the rear of a stud, c". In this condition it will be noticed that the strain on the steels, as by wear of the corset on the person, cannot unfasten the steel, and to unfasten said steels it is first necessary to push the same toward each other sufficiently at their lower 6 ends to overcome the force of the spring 9 which locks the lower ends of steels, after which the fastenings c 61 may be unloosed, as usual, and then the upper fastening may be disengaged by moving one steel longitudinally with relation to the other. This upper fastening, h, and its stud a; prevent lateral movement of the steels with relation to each other so long as the locked fastening f is engaged with stud 6 It is in the application of two fastenings having the characteristics described to one pair of steels that my invention consists.

I claim- The steel b and its headed studs ac and e combined with the steel at, having upon it an angular plate, h, provided with a slot extended parallel to the edge of the steel to, and adapted to prevent the disengagement of the plate h from the stud a: by other than a longitudinal 8 motion of the steels ab with relation to each other, and with a fastening, f, having a spring device to obstruct the passage of the headed stud e engaged by it from the small to the large part of the lateral slot of the said fastening, the combination being and operating substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

THEODORE O. BATES.

Witnesses:

WILLIAM MOOREADY, H. H. FAIRBANKS. 

